Salut Aurélien ! On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 12:47 PM Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > The mips architecture, supporting 32-bit big-endian MIPS CPUs, has > been supported in Debian for more than 15 years. Due to the limited 2GB > virtual address space and due to the fact this architecture is one of > the last big-endian architecture Debian supports, the porting effort > is increasingly difficult. On the other hand the interest for this > architecture is going down, and with it the human resources available > for porting is going down.
Thanks for your dedication these last years. > Now that buster has been released, it is probably time to drop this > architecture from bullseye and sid. Unless there is a sudden interest > for this architecture, that is commitment from some new porters and new > hardware for the build daemons, the plan is to ask for the ftpmasters > to drop this architecture in about 4 weeks. In other words, mips is not going to debian-ports ? > Note that many recent > MIPS hardware support endian switching at runtime and can therefore be > supported by the mipsel or mips64el ports. This is the case for example > of the Octeon CPUs. > > Note that this *only concerns bullseye and sid*. The mips architecture > will still be available for stretch for roughly 1 more year, and for > buster for roughly 3 more years. > > Aurelien, on behalf of the MIPS porters > > -- > Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B > [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net -- Mathieu
